Anna Arrosmith is a pornographic film director who works under the pseudonym Anna Spann. She runs a campaign site for erotic workers called www.weconsent.org, which campaigns against moral panics and anti-erotic industry legislation. At 16 she believed what mainstream feminists were saying that porn degraded women. But one day she realized her anger was actually envy of men having their sexuality catered for in so many different ways,. In the late 1980s, women's sexuality was not catered for at all. I now work as part of a burgeoning feminist and queer porn industry, which is changing perceptions of sex on film.
It’s an issue that only gets more contentious with time - is porn good for us? To debate this issue in 2013, host Viv Groskop was joined by Germaine Greer, Dr Robert Lefever, Anna Arrowsmith, and Dr Clarissa Smith. But how has our cultural outlook swayed and shifted over the past decade? Have conversations about sexual liberation or concerns over children’s access and early exposure to pornographic content moved us beyond the panellists arguments in 2013? Or are we still just as confused as a society. Listen now to find out.
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